The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 129

He searched all round for the lamp, but could find it nowhere, for the witch always had it safely guarded, as it was one of her most precious treasures.

Who acts: king, witch, chimney · What happens: search, find, have, guard, be, treasure · To what, where: chimney

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, witch, chimney), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 searched	nsubj
2	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 round	advmod
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 searched	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamp	det
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 searched	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 find	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 find	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 guarded	nsubj
21	safely	safely	ADV	_	22 guarded	advmod
22	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 one	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 one	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 one	cop
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 guarded	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 treasures	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 treasures	nmod:poss
30	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	31 precious	advmod
31	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 treasures	amod
32	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	search	past	king		for the lamp; round property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for lamp=Theme
2	find	could		chimney	nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	have	past	the witch		always property	tree rules
4	guard	past	chimney		safely property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	chimney		as one; of Witch's precious treasures	tree rules
6	treasure		Witch			nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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